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| live =Rehearsed but [[NIN songs never played live|unperformed2022]]

This is the original album version. Driven throughout by consistent drum and bass parts, [[Trent Reznor]]'s layered vocals and muted guitars soon join. The higher, melodic verses are followed by lower pitched vocals in the pre-choruses, then higher again as the choruses are sung in falsetto. The choruses also feature a different chord progression played by bass and distorted guitars, similar to the choruses of "[[Love Is Not Enough]]." The second chorus and following bridge also feature a synthesizer lead that sounds very similar to a blender, perhaps the song's most notable characteristic. This sound was achieved using a device called the French Connection, which is a CV keyboard controller based on the Ondes Martenot.[https://www.theninhotline.com/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=55] The song ends after two repeated choruses with different lyrics and 16 bars of the verse bassline and drums, which stop together just as they began.

"Sunspots" [[NIN songs never played live|has never been was not performed live]]until 2022, perhaps due to [[Trent Reznor]]'s fear of straining his voice too much, but eventually made its live debut on [[2022/06/21_London,_England|June 21]] at Brixton Academy, London. However, it has It had also been performed at soundchecks and rehearsals with vocals. One of those soundchecks can be heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtkdJfF8BOo here]. Starting 2013, "Sunspots" was interpolated into the outro of "[[Sanctified]]" by [[Alessandro Cortini]].